Expedia Group
Travel booking group; ML for search ranking, recommendations, pricing and ads
Interview in a few hours? A quick sprint for Expedia Group
AI in interviews
Expedia asks candidates not to use AI tools to answer interview questions, saying it values original responses; if a question is unclear, ask the interviewer. Use of certain tools may be considered only as an approved disability accommodation.
Typical interview loop
How Expedia Group usually runs it for applied AI and LLM engineer roles.
- Focus: Background, role fit
Recruiter / HR call
A conversation about your background and the role's responsibilities before any technical step.
- Focus: Applied ML coding
Online coding / modelling assessment
An async HackerRank-style task, often a hands-on modelling or classification problem, done before the final interviews.
- Focus: Experience, motivation
Hiring manager call
Some candidates speak with the hiring manager before the final loop about their experience and fit for the team.
- Focus: Modelling decisions, ML theory
Assessment review and ML technical discussion
In the final stage you talk through the assessment you submitted and defend your modelling choices, then discuss ML and statistics concepts with a team lead.
- Focus: Python, SQL, data wrangling
Data manipulation / coding round
A live hands-on session working with data in Python or SQL, testing whether you can clean, reshape and analyse it under time pressure.
- Focus: Behaviors, culture fit
Behavioral and culture interview
Questions about past situations, answered in STAR form, assessed against Expedia Group's published Behaviors such as ownership and traveler focus.
How it weights your plan
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Official prep and resources
Public candidate write-ups
- Taro: Expedia Group Machine Learning Scientist interview, UK (coding test + 4 virtual onsites)1 Jan 2025 · medium confidence
- Taro: Expedia Group Machine Learning Science Intern interview, UK (HackerRank modelling + review)20 Oct 2024 · medium confidence
- Taro: Expedia Group Machine Learning Scientist II interview, United States25 Aug 2024 · low confidence
- Taro: Expedia Group ML Scientist interview, Seattle (HR, hiring manager, 4-round final)1 Jun 2024 · low confidence
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